While You Were Offline: The Teen Behind Deez Nuts’ Presidential Run

Amidst the clamor and glamor of the real world, the Internet this week has been a busy one (especially if you signed up for Ashley Madison and had to explain that away to a loved one). There’s been a resurgence for that fun old “men harassing women online and then claim that they’re the true victims” meme, as well as a spirited defense of horrible working practices and the closure of a beloved tourist attraction in Oregon. It’s not all bad, though, as a surprising new use for the phrase “Deez Nuts” will prove. (No, really.) Steel yourself: It’s the round-up of what you might have missed over the last seven days of wild world wide web woolliness.

Forget Drones. Now There’s Something Worse to Be Mad at Amazon For

What Happened: An expose on the terrible working practices at Amazon.com might make you feel better about your own job, but is this the way things have to be for the online economy?

Where It Blew Up: Twitter, blogs, media think pieces

What Really Happened: Good news for almost anyone who hates their job: a New York Times story on the corporate culture at Amazon suggests that it really, really could be much worse. Well, unless you hate your job because you’re already working at Amazon, of course. With quotes from former employees like “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk” and “For those of us who went to work there, it was like a drug that we could get self-worth from,” it’s fair to say that it made Amazon look like arguably the worst place to work imaginable—although not everyone was convinced.

Spelman’s statement inspired others to speak out; Rhiannon Payne, former editor-in-chief of Feminspire told DailyDot that she is no longer connected with the site “due to the toll that the situation was taking on my mental health” and that she no longer has any relationship to Schoen. Abbey Lewis, another former writer for the site took to Twitter to share more:

OKAY statement time. I left Feminspire because I felt Ben Schoen had too much control/influence.

Well… yes, we can. After all, it seems that that “harassing someone because they have a boyfriend and then claiming that they are lying about the situation” dramatically outweighs “helping someone to start a website by offering technical expertise.”

The Takeaway: On the plus side, Schoen definitely succeeded at that whole “massive meltdown” that he was aiming for.

Homeowners Never Never Say Die

What Happened: The real-life owner of the iconic house from The Goonies decided that she’d had enough of fans visiting unannounced.

It’s not just the media—and North Carolina voters—who are into the idea of Deez Nuts going all the way: Warren G has come forward and said that he’d be willing to run as his Vice President, taking the opportunity to remind people that he appeared on the original “Deeez Nuuuts” track on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic. With that in place, all that’s needed now is a coherent platform… and maybe a few million voters.

The Takeaway: If nothing else, he’s not any less ridiculous than Trump. Clearly, this will be the political campaign of sideshows and carnivals.

The Saddest, Happiest Place on Earth

What Happened: Welcome to the most… wonderful place in the world? Art enfant terrible Banksy announces “Dismaland,” his new theme park turned art gallery.

Fittingly for the trickster persona Banksy has tried to create, there’s already a fake Twitter account parodying the continually crashing website for the park (This is the real Twitter account, for those looking for it):

If there’s a plus side to all this, it’s that My Roommate Banksy briefly enjoyed a return to the hearts and minds of the online cynical—an audience that should, in theory, be the target audience for Dismaland, if it wasn’t for the fact that all but Banksy have realized that he’s as much a part of the establishment that he’s trying to rebel against as Walt Disney himself.

The Takeaway: Unhappy customers, long waits, and endless media coverage? It really is like the real Disney after all!